Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...
...their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written...
Sumner's delivery, according to Mr. Keller, was "plain, hard and ruthless... I do not recall that he told a single story in his classes... He never made concessions to the youth and flightiness of his students." Class work was a serious business; order and dignity were next to Godliness. Let Mr. Keller illustrate...
...World Waits (by George F. Hummel; Frank Merlin, producer) is a depiction of life in the murky base cabin of the Hartley Antarctic expedition, toward the end of a two-year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World...
...Sons." If not the most original it is at least the most refreshing story in the collection. In this, the author is not satirical, nor is he bitter. The dialogue is terse, but not disconnected. Though Mr. Hemingway is openly sentimental in the sketch of Nicholas Adams's youth, his writing in this story is at his best. Perhaps he will continue to write without the pseudo-hard-boiled veneer which has pervaded most of his short stories in the past. "Fathers And Sons" was the last of the collection; we hope it was the last that he wrote...